Autumn manifests so uniquely in Venice. After two sunny, blue-skied days, I finally encountered the mythical fog that sits over land and water, like a gauzy veil, wrapping the city in an uncanny stillness. I arrived here a day after delivering a lecture at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, along with my co-fellows, and had to immerse myself immediately in the workshop I was invited to conduct by the Bern University of Applied Sciences as part of a theory seminar for architecture students.

It’s been exciting to be located in a different quarter of Venice after having spent three summer months in Castello. I’m right beside the Arts Academy in Dorsoduro, and I am feasting on the particularities that distinguish this area from other parts of Venice. Through my east-facing window, I can glimpse the bell tower of San Giorgio Maggiore, and before it, the church of Santa Maria della Salute. If I peer out leftwards, I can see the bell tower of St Mark’s Cathedral. Two minutes away is Zattere, from where I can take the ferry to wherever I need to go.